beach

Yesterday: Fin has the car today because Sharon's away, so zie drove me into work. That meant I got to sleep in a whole two hours and get up at seven. Despite this, I have been feeling crappy and not terribly with it most of the day. Fin also came to pick me up in the evening, having gone to the bookshop and bought me a copy of Un Lun Dun. I felt a lot better in the evening and finished something for Plexq.
Today: Floatyfish and Onib met us in New Jersey and we went and spent the day on the naked beach. At first the state troopers weren't letting anyone near the beach because it was full, so we found a grassy place a while away and sat and ate lunch. When we came back an hour or so later, the traffic cones were gone and we drove onto the beach. I spent most of the day just lying there getting some sun on my skin, and my psoriasis looks a whole lot better now-- almost invisible in a lot of places. It was just the right mix of sunny and windy (I think you don't really get the full effect of wandering around outside naked unless the wind is blowing and you can feel the air around you all over). I didn't go in the sea much, though, because psoriasis hurts when it's drying. Floatyfish brought us some amazingly good chocolate-chip biscuits. Afterwards we went back home and watched fireworks and wandered around the fair for a while, and lay on the ground looking at the stars (did you all know that the British and American names for Ursa Minor differ?), but we didn't play any games at the fair. Then it was late, so we all went home.
(I did eavesdrop a bit, with some surprise, on the conversation of the two women sitting about six to eight metres away from me who were saying that they really wanted to watch two men getting intimate but they were afraid it would never happen because they were female, so what they wanted was to find bisexual men for a threesome. I was surprised because I have often heard straight men say all this with the genders reversed but never the other way around. I had vaguely assumed it was a straight male thing.)
I want to tell you that Fin drove all the way there and all the way back, zir first time driving out of state, and it was awesome.